New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-06


in insisting on having a room provided for
Part ILL., of the General Sessions Court. If
the three criminal judges could be kept busy
all the time there would be little, if any, accu-
mutation of criminal business in this city. BY
all means let Mr.. MARITIME keep up the struggle
Mayor Hewitt will. we trust, give all the help
he can to this movement.
The gayety of the ice carnival at Montreal
this week will be chilled by the shocking acct
dent at Woodstock Bridge. Many of the vic
Tins were on their way to that city when they
net their death. Tobogganing skating. dane
ing and all kinds Of amusement seem sadly out
OF place while fifty of the people who hoped to
share the fun have just passed out of life in so
terrible a manner.
The recent war scare in Europe appears to
bc due to Prince Bsmarck's desire to win in
the German elections, and the European spec
ulators' anxiety to make money on fluctuations
in the stock market. From a moral point Of
view it is hard to decide which set of manip-
ulators Is the more blamcworthy, the statesman
and his followers or the money gcttcrs. In
motives the dishonesty is about equal; but
from statesmen one really might expect higher
!hings. Evidently both Bismarck and the
French and German brokers belong to the great
Opportunist party. and viii stop at nothing in
carrying out their plans until the present war
problem is solved in one way or another.
There is talk among the bosses in the Knights
Of Labor organization of keeping up the coal
strike this week, and even of extending its
area. 1t is hard to believe that they will be
unwise enough to order this, or that their
followers will be 50 blind 70 their own interests
as to obey. The strike is practically ended. 1t
is true that it still causes inconvenience to bust
ness and suffering among the poorer classes /;
but the corporations against which the Knights
attack is directed have all the help they need,
and it is only a.qaestion of time when they will
be able to do their duty toward the public fully
and satisfactorily. Thanks to the complete
police preparations, the so-called mass-meet-
lngs of strike sympathizers last night were
perfectly orderly. Not more than thousand
persons attended the largest of the five gather
ings. The resolutions adopted were, on the
whole. moderate, but the anti-rent scheme met
with some approval.
The real cause of all the trouble now brew ing
IN Europe is Bulgaria, but it was long since
lost sight Of. Only occasionally is its memory
ACNANCN 40 0hou tic DuikdIldu NlslJiuR SJdtcS-
men appear in some new European capital
seeking sympathy. Some details of one of
their latest visits given in our Paris letter.
M. Flourens, the French Prime Minister.
advised them to placate Russia, and insinuated
that it was very naughty to try to set up revo
lutionary govern ments. He seemed to forget
that from European point of view there has
not been a Government in Paris within a
century, save one, which has not been revolu-
tionary. The last thing the French ought to
do, II they have any regard for consistency, is
10 discourage the BulRarians in their efforts 70
establish representative government of their
own.
The part which Belgium might play in a
great war between Germany and France Is a
topic much discussed in diplomatic circles Just
now. II has commonly been supposed that the
seutrality Of Belgium was guaranteed by the
Great Powers by the Treaty of 1870 but it
was not. The limitation against invasion of its